Considering Art Podcast

Carolyn Tripp makes traditionally-shaped porcelain ceramics but gives them a contemporary twist. In this episode, she tells of how family members first piqued her interest in ceramics, why she gave up a successful career in advertising to follow her passion, how she flourished during her degree at Camberwell College in London, how she helps support people with mental illness through creating ceramics after processing grief of her own, and how she gives her pieces a modern feel.

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Mum’s Flowers IV

You can see more of Carolyn’s work on her website

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Sophie Duez is a multidisciplinary emerging artist with a particular love for graphite. In this episode, she talks about why she felt an outsider as a child, how having double vision has affected her art, why she chose to study Illustration for which she gained a first-class honours degree, the unconventional techniques she has learnt, details of some of her drawings and how she is developing as an artist.

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There is Evil

Unreachable

Fossil of a Girl

All images are © Sophie Duez

You can see more of Sophie’s work on her website

Her current exhibition, Emerge, is showing at the Crypt Gallery, Norwich, until 29 March.

You can view the catalogue here https://www.sophieduez.com/emerge

American artist Paige Perkins, now based in England, draws on mythology, fairy tales and symbols to create paintings in which hybrid creatures and ambivalent faces abound. In this episode, she talks about how she chose painting over ballet, how art school in London loosened her style, how regular Jungian analysis has influenced her work, how she aims to visualise her subconscious through her process, how the state of the natural environment concerns her, and about those artists who influence her.

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All images are ©Paige Perkins

You can see more of Paige’s work on her website

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Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist who tells life stories through weaving. Here, she talks about how she turned to weaving after initially studying painting, how her early works were made to process the trauma of domestic abuse, how she established the We Were Never Alone workshop project to help other abuse victims, the fibres she uses, how environmental sustainability has been a theme of a series of works, the Journal series in which she weaves a visual diary, and about her close relationship with her late grandparents that spawned her current exhibition.

Bryana Bibbs talking with Bob Chaundy

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That Bad Space

Numb

After

Alone Against It All

Two works dedicated to Bryana’s grandparents at her Two Hundred and Fifty One Days Days show

All images are © Bryana Bibbs

Two Hundred and Fifty One Days is showing at The Chicago Cultural Center until 18 May 2025

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Melita Denaro paints landscapes from her home on the Isle of Doagh in the Irish county of Donegal. In this episode, she talks about childhood memories, studying ceramics, working as an art teacher in a tough north London school, charming her way into the Royal Academy Schools, making a series on the Crucifixion based on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, how she was persuaded to take up landscape painting en plain air, how light is the most important aspect of her works and how she copes with Multiple Sclerosis.

Melita Denaro talking with Bob Chaundy

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The Tragedy of War – The Troubles, Belfast

Head Study

Drawing based on Michelangelo’s Pieta

All images are © Melita Denaro

All This and Heaven Too is showing at the John Martin Gallery March 5-21

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Yeside Linney only took up art professionally after retiring from a career as an English teacher. Yet her landscapes, portraits and abstract works have brought her early success in terms of prizes and exhibitions. In this episode, she talks about life in English boarding schools to which she was sent from her birthplace in Nigeria, how she “decolonises” her past through the themes of her artwork, how she focuses on the feminine side of Yoruba culture, how her English upbringing and Nigerian heritage gives her an “enduring vulnerability”, how her work has a brooding element and is mood-driven, and why she made a series entitled Scarification.

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Alchemy and Elemental

All images are © Yeside Linney

You can see more of Yeside’s work on her website

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Daniel Shadbolt paints portraits, landscapes and still life using cleverly contrasting soft colours and shadow. In this episode, he talks about his experience at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal Drawing School, examples of inspiring advice he’s been given by both tutors and other artists, the influence of Impressionism and post-Impressionism on his oil painting, how his style has become more abstracted, how he handles colour, how he draws the viewer into his landscapes and still life work, and about some of his regular sitters.

Daniel Shadbolt talking with Bob Chaundy

Catherine

All images are © Daniel Shadbolt

You can see more of Daniel’s work on his website

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Ya La’Ford is an American of Jamaican heritage who makes paintings, murals, sculpture and installations designed to bring communities together. In this podcast she talks about her early engagement with art, the influence of Jamaica on her art and life, taking a law degree before an art one, the influence of abstract expressionism on her geometric designs, the importance of bridging communities and examples of her site-specific installations.

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American Roots

All images are © Ya La’Ford

Top photo is Ya with her Silver Lining installation at the London Art Fair 2025

You can see more of Ya’s work on her website

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Veteran abstract artist Paul Huxley has had a long and distinguished career both as an artist and an educator at some of Britain’s most prestigious art institutions. In this episode, he talks about studying at junior art school, his attraction to abstract painting, getting a career boost at The New Generation exhibition in 1964, befriending legendary abstract expressionist figures while in New York, the influence of other artists and of theatre on his works, his experience of teaching art and the challenges he loves about determining the shapes, size, colour, balance and relationships within the geometric and serpentine features that characterise his paintings.

Paul Huxley talking with Bob Chaundy

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Fluid Forms 1, 1964

Untitled 146, 1974

Spanish Cubism, 1978

Modus Operandi VII, 1989

Proteus II, 2001

Poised IV, 2017

All images are © Paul Huxley

You can see many more of his works on his website

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London-based Martha Hussey has built a reputation as an innovative artist using fibre, yarn and embroidery threads. In this episode, she talks about creativity in her family, how she opted for textiles after taking a degree in Fine Art, how working as a model in the fashion industry introduced her to new stitching techniques which she has developed in her art, how personal therapy led her to taking a course in art therapy for children, and about examples of her work including portraits, wall hangings and soft set designs for animated films.

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Weathered. Hand embroidered yarn on hessian fabric

Strike. Hand woven wall hanging

Freedom. Hand woven wall hanging

Mycelium Network. Hand embroidered wool on hessian and shown at the Royal Academy

Dad. Hand embroidery on water soluble paper

Jump. Hand embroidered silk thread and acrylic paint on hessian fabric

All images are © Martha Hussey

You can see more of Martha’s work on her website

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